In America, unscrupulous politicians explicitly target voters by demographics and fill the airwaves with propaganda aimed at steering the vote. This leads to s

In America, unscrupulous politicians explicitly target voters by demographics and fill the airwaves with propaganda aimed at steering the vote. This leads to situations like celebrity endorsements, where huge swaths of under-informed voters are influenced simply by messaging. The saving grace is the 'representative' form of government, where at least some sanity can be injected into the process.